By Bhagyashree Garekar, US Correspondent

DENVER: Meet Mr Michael Yaki, the Asian-American force behind Senator Barack Obama's policy promises to voters.

'I'm half Chinese, three-eighth Japanese and one-eighth Hawaiian,' he says in all seriousness, explaining that his mother is from China and his father Japanese-Hawaiian.

The 47-year-old Yale-trained lawyer felt a deep sense of satisfaction as the Democratic National Convention last week ratified the party's election platform, a document that contains its stances on various issues critical to voters.

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